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Excerpt from:"You Can't Keep A Good Man Down"Valiantly he fought the disease and eventually won his life, but his promising political career seemed at an end -- Franklin Roosevelt had been left a helpless cripple! His legs that had carried him through thirty-nine years of active, vigorous life failed him, the passing disease left them useless. As was characteristic of Roosevelt he did not give way to despair and sink into a state of chronic melancholia. The old fighting spirit came to the fore. "I'll beat this thing!" he swore -- and he did....